Sunday, 16 January 2011

Captain Cook Bridge

The Captain Cook Bridge is one of three major road crossings of the Georges River. It is a six-lane precast prestressed concrete bridge that links Rocky Point Road at Sans Souci in the St George area to Taren Point Road at Taren Point in the Sutherland Shire. A ferry service ran between these southern suburbs from 1911 and a vehicular punt ran between these two points from 1916. The Captain Cook Bridge was opened in 1965 and named after explorer Captain James Cook who landed at nearby Kurnell on 29 April 1770, when navigating his way around Australia. At sunset yesterday there were plenty of fishermen fishing off the rocks at Sans Souci and in boats on the river. Click here to view all participants of Scenic Sunday

Captain Cook really made it around to a lot of places. He was in Hawaii (and was killed there). We were in Easter Island about 2 months ago, and he had been there. A couple of years ago we visited Tahiti and the Cook Islands, and he had been there. In a few years we plan to go to New Guinea. I wonder if we will hear that it also was also explored by Captain Cook.

Ann, yes I did see those boats and pontoons being smashed against bridges after the floods in the waters of the Brisbane River. It's been devastating. There was even a 500 metre section of a pedestrian bridge that broke up and had to be guided out to Moreton Bay by tug boats. By the way, Brisbane also has a Captain Cook Bridge.